moralizing

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And then there are “family values,” a whole range of social issues usually related to sexual behavior and typically expressed in censorious, moralizing terms.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026

Subsequent moralizing about nuclear weapons, often by the scientists developing them, pales before Roosevelt’s willingness to act on his gut instinct.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025

Implicit in "wellness" rhetoric is the idea that poor health is strictly a result of personal choices, which are subjected to moralizing judgment.

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2024

Gillian SteelFisher of the Harvard School of Public Health thinks the agency at times adopted a counterproductive, moralizing tone during the pandemic.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 26, 2024

President Truman, who felt he had shown a valorous decisiveness in ordering the bombs to be dropped, had no tolerance for retrospective moralizing.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik